2008

July: SymbioticA becomes a Centre of Excellence in Biological Arts through a joint initiative between The University of Western Australia and The Western Australian Government Department of Culture and the Arts.

Residents:

1999

TC&A present at The MIT Media Lab, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.

Guy Ben-Ary is employed as the manager of the IAAF and joins Catts' and Zurr’s TC&A.

The shared vision of Grounds, Bunt and Catts for a permanent space for artists to engage with science in various capacities leads to the construction of the artists’ studio/lab on the second floor of the School of Anatomy and Human Biology at The University of Western Australia, funded by Lottery West and The University of Western Australia.

1998

31 July - 6 September: Art in Science (exhibition), a collaboration between the Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery and the Department of Anatomy and Human Biology is organised by Prof Miranda Grounds, Dr Stuart Bunt and Oron Catts.

1997

Oron Catts and Ionat Zurr receive a small research and development grant from Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts and then a larger one from the New Media Arts Board of The Australia Council for the Arts to ’Explore the use of tissue technologies as a medium for artistic expression’.

1996

Stelarc recommends Catts to speak to cell biologist Prof. Miranda Grounds as a scientist open to working with artists.

Ionat Zurr joins Catts to form The Tissue Culture and Art Project (TC&A) and they begin working as artists/researchers in residence in the School of Anatomy and Human Biology at The University of Western Australia and the Lions Eye Institute.